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sunday Morning some Account "f His Life.
The remains of Major Ben Perley Poore,
who died In Washington early Sunday
morning, were placed In coffin at noon. Az
| o'clock about fifty of his personal friends
assembled in the corridors OF the Eooiu
house as mark OF respect No services were
held. The body, accompanied oy Mrs
Poore, Miss Ellen Poore, sister OF the uead
man, and his cousin, +. d. Appleton, LETT the
city on the o'clock Boston train. and will
be taken TO the Poore homestead, Indian
Hill, near Newburyport Mass. The funeral
and intermeut will take place there on Tues
dsy. Messrs Nordhob. Carson, Lyman,
Wight and Seckendort representing the
Washington corresponds nts and the Gridiron
club General Boynton, Recorder Mussey,
Admiral Amy and General Van lieI
representing the Loyal Legion, and com.
mittee OF the Scottish Rite Mssons accom-
panied the remains to the station.
Major Ben Perley Poore was for more
than ttty years a close observer OF things In
Washington, snd for large portion OF that
time had written about them for Inc news
papers The fund of "reminiscences which ne
mad At his fingers ends was something re.
msrksble He had been noted for years as
the best man in the city To tell story, aud ne
mad earned the title He had been intimately
| acquainted with leading public men since the
DAYS OF Henry Clay and Thomas II. Benton,
and had been persuaded to write a book con
tanning these rem Ar kaoie "reminiscences Thls
book mas recently been published in two vol
uues and bids tsir TO rival Thomas b. Ben
| tons Thirty Years in the United States
Senate"
Major Poore was born In lS20 at Indian Hill
| farm, about four miles from Newsburypoft,
| Mass where his ancestors have lived IN un.
| broken succession since l650 At the age OF
seven wears he was taken to the District OF
Columbia, where the principal portion OF MS
busy lite has since that time been spent IN
public duties In ISL he accompanied his
parents to where he had the pleasure OF meet
ing Sir Walter Scott Thomas Moore, Gen.
Lafayette and others distinguished in liters'
ture Upon his return from Europe he Was
placed in a military school to receive pre-
paratory training for West Point. The pros.
poets OF a military life which his parents mad
Intended he should follow being par
ticulsrly irksome to him, he ran away
from school and home. and appren-
riced himself to = printer in Worcester, Mass.
After a period OF drudgery here he visited
his home, when his father purchased for him
newspaper Office in Athens, Ga, where he
spent the following two years, when he was
off cred and accepted position ~ an attache
| to the United States minister to Belgium, re-
naming abroad i've years and visiting dur.
ing the time every portion of Europe, the
Holy Land and Lower Egypt On mis- re-
turn in lSi7 he began, in Washing
ton, the correspondence for Msssachu-
sstts and other papers which he has
since continued. Ia 1862 he was ap
pointed clerk of printing records tor the
| United States Senate, and has also edited the
| Congressional Directory. His late home a
| Farm Hill, Mass. ,ls a mansion OF sixty rooms
| 1t contains more historical relics, documents
| and records than any public library in the
! country, not excepting the govern mem
| archives. 1t also ontains au amateur print
| ing Office, which Is model OF its kind, and
As the major is an expert in the matter o
| agriculture, his farm and stock are not to be
surpassed anywhere. Major Ben Perley
Poore was considered the " Deau " among
the corresponding fraternity.